Fence-panel coupling.



C. B. JOHNSON. FENCE PANEL COUPLING. APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 1912 a H I Q MN Patented June 2, 1914.

1 ill/02 0 M flbfozwnss STATES PATEN OHARLEB B. JOHNSON,

0F COLUMBUS, OHIO,

FENCE-PANEL COUPLING.

Griginal application filed. February 6, 1911, fierial No.

Serial No. 709,008.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, Cumulus B. JoI-rNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain. new and useful improvement in Fence-Panel Couplings, of which the following is a speciiication.

The application for this patent is a division of that filed by me February 6, 1911, having Serial Number 606,681.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved portable fence made up of sec tions with means for coupling the sections together so that the fence can be erected either on straight or angular lines.

The invention is embodied in the construction herein shown and described and then particularly pointed out in the claim.

in the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a view mainly in elevation of a portion of fence according to the invention, a portion of the post being broken out to show the coupling member as connected with a post or other stationary object. Fig. 2 is an edge view with parts in section showing the coupling on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is an edge view showing; how a pair of the post connections can be used as a fence section cou pling.

in the views 5 designates the male head member consisting of a circular plate perforated at its middle for the passage of a bolt and provided with a series of four cylindrical pins 5 quadrantly spaced and equally distant from the center of the plate. The head member 5 as shown at the left hand end of Fig. 1 and in Figs. 2 and 8 is shown as provided with a threaded shank 13 and an integral nut 16 concentric with the axis of the shank and adapted to receive a wrench for turning the member. The female head member 7 is provided with a shank 6 having lateral shoulders 6 and spurs 6". The female member of the coupling, as shown in Fig. 2, consists of a head portion 7 having a central perforation for the passage of a bolt and a series of eight holes 7 equally spaced apart and equally distant from the center of the head portion, the distance of the holes from the center being the same as that of the pins 5 or so that said pins can be in sorted in the said holes. The female head member 7, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is pro vided with a shank 6 having lateral shoulders 6 and pins 6. A pair of said male members is connected to one end of a fence section and a pair of said female members is connected at the other as best seen at the left hand end of Fig. 1.

Vertical panels 8 and 9 are driven onto the spurs 6" and 6" at the opposite sides of the shanks with one of the edges of each panel matching against the adjacent 1110. The horizontal rails 10 are then inserted under and against the shank and secured with nails or screws as at 11.

The fence can be started from some fixed structure as for example a barn or house or at a post 152. For this purpose I make the male member at their head portions as be-- fore described and their shanks as screws as seen at Both parts of the coupling can be provided with screws and means whereby they can be turned with a wrench and both be used in connecting fence sections, in which case the screws can be turned into the ends of the horizontal rails of the sections as seen in Fig. 3. The head portion is offset from the axis of the shank so as to impart strength and symmetry to the coupling while the concentricity of the nut with the axis of the shank facilitates the insertion of the coupling notwithstanding the eccentricity of the head portion.

The male and female members are united firmly together by means of a bolt 15 passed through the central perforations of both heads when lapped upon each other and a nut 16.

With this construction the devices are easily applied and the angle at which one fence section stands with reference to the next can be varied to several positions one being shown by broken lines Fig 2. A fence thus constructed is also very strong, durable and cheaply constructed and its parts can be easily taken down and moved from one place to another. it will be very serviceable in erecting temporary closures or pens for cattle. By reversing the heads on each other the coupling can be used as a hinge.

What I claim is:

A. fence panel coupling" comprising, in

combination, a pair of coupling members, of the shank, the head portion being ofiset each member of the pair including a shank from the axis ofthe shank, substantially as and a head portion thereon adapted to lap shown and described.

upon and be secured to the head portion of CHARLES B. JOHNSON. the other member, one of said shanks being WVitnesses:

threaded and provided with a Wrench-re- DONALD W. KLING,

ceiving enlargement concentric With the axis GEORGE l/L FINOKEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. O. 

